Sentences with phrase «millions of its public domain»

Amazon knows that people have access to millions of public domain books for free.

Right after Sony's announcement that its new collection of eReaders would support the ePub format, Google announced it would be distributing millions of its public domain eBooks as ePub downloads.

Not exact matches

CBI roasts 10 million pounds of coffee annually for restaurants, coffeehouses, and retail outlets via brands such as Panache, Public Domain, and Café Tierra as well as private labels.

«Having looked at the two cases in the public domain, we are concerned that many millions of pounds may be lost to the public purse.

Project Gutenberg has since digitized thousands of novels in the public domain, and distributed them, largely in plain text, to millions of readers.

Millions of titles in the public domain, such as A Tale of Two Cities, Les Misérables, Pride and Prejudice, and more are available for free.

The figures do not include free Kindle books, of which there are 1.8 million originally published before 1923 (they are in the public domain because their copyright has expired).

This news countered Google's announcement that the 1.5 million public domain books available on its Google Book Search offering will soon be available (free, of course) via a new cell phone application.

It will cost more than Iraq, more than Wall St.. Each 20 years of copyright extension removes a million public domain books, not to mention newspapers, magazines, music, movies, etc., etc., etc..

Starting this week you can access more than half a million free public domain books from Google optimized for current models of the Reader *.

After that, you get one of the lowest eBook prices and simply the widest selection of about 400,000 titles apart from the millions of free titles in the public domain.

When the Alex ships in mid-April, users will have access to the more than 1 million public domain books available through Google, but they'll have to wait until the end of May or beginning of June for the full Borders store.

Despite its partnership with Google Books almost two years ago, giving On Demand access to two million of Google's public domain titles, there are currently only about 75 EBMs at work in locations around the country, with another 75 or so expected to be in use by the end of the year.

Google eBooks and the corresponding eBookstore launched Dec. 6 to let consumers search for and access more than 2 million public domain books for free, or purchase any of hundreds of thousands of titles from 4,000 - plus publishers.

Shop the Kindle Store for over 1.2 million of the most popular books, or explore millions of free, public domain books such as Pride and Prejudice.

Amazon won't release sales figures for Kindle titles, but Apple boasted that 1.5 million titles were downloaded from its iBook store in the first month of its existence, when it contained about 50,000 titles (including free public domain titles).

Over 6 million fully accessible public domain ebooks, including a special modern collection of over 500,000 ebooks for users with print disabilities.

Public domain classics are the easiest books to find in ebook format, largely thanks to the sterling and visionary work of Project Gutenberg (and, more recently, the Open Library, which currently promises over a million free ebook titles).

Google at the moment has scanned a total of 1 million public domain books, 1 million in print books, and 7 million out of print, not in public domain books.

Still, the march of the ereaders continues: today Sony is expected to announce a deal with Google that gives Reader users access to a half million books in the public domain.

There are lots of free public domain books — Internet Archive has 1.8 million of them in Kindle format.

The good news is that this is really a mature market now (both Amazon and B&N offer «over one million» titles in their libraries) and between library lending, friend - to - friend lending, public domain books, and the sheer inevitability of e-books-as-the-future, you'll be well served by a number of products on the market — you'll just probably be best served by Amazon.

(This is in addition to the millions of free public domain e-books available at Project Gutenberg and other places that can be read on a Kindle or any other e-book reader.)

The Kobo bookstore is a good one, offering over 2 million books (though more than a million of those are free, public domain books that every ebook store has).

But there are already over 900,000 e-books available in the Amazon Kindle store, plus literally millions of public - domain e-books available from multiple sources.

Barnes and Noble inflates its Nook count with over a million public domain titles, and Apple just recently passed the 100,000 - title mark in its iBooks store, which is so embarrassingly lame that Apple dropped iBooks from its Apps listings just as it was about to fall out of the Top 20 listings.

However, more than a million of those are public - domain books from Google Books.

More than 2 million - plus book titles will be free, public domain classics users may already see snippets of on the Google Books search platform.

It'll open with a staggering 400,000 to 600,000 books to Amazon's 330,000 and Sony's 100,000 (though the latter is supplemented by nearly a million public domain books, courtesy of Google, of all companies).

There is also a vast reservoir (1.5 million - plus) of free public - domain works (primarily books published before 1923 whose American copyrights have expired) available from a variety of sources.

B&N's official number is over a million, but half of those are works in the public domain.

The last bit of Kindle - related news from the press release is that the U.S. Kindle Store has grown to more than 810,000 ebooks, not counting the millions of free public domain titles.

Moreover, you get access to millions of free books that are in the public domain, and Amazon Prime members can «borrow» books via the Kindle Owners» lending Library.

Google said the Canadian catalog includes hundreds of thousands of books for purchase and two million free books in the public domain.

As long as you understand that the Nook's million titles include lots of public - domain freebies — both classics and forgotten curiosities — the fact that the e-reader offers Google books in such vast quantity is a pro, not a con.

The Nook offers more than a million titles, of which 500,000 are public domain books from Google Books.

Disregarding the millions of free public domain ebooks that most ebook stores tout as part of their selection, Amazon most likely has the widest section of ebooks on the planet.

The others are out - of - print editions, millions of titles available in the public domain like Google Books, and digital formats licensed out through major publishers including Harper Collins.

Kobo's store is tinier than the competition's: It advertises 2.3 million eBooks in its store, and 1.8 million of those are free ebooks in the public domain.

Last month the mobile version of Google Book Search for iPhone and Android made its debut, giving users access to more 1.5 million public domain books.

On top of that, through Worldreader Mobile app, developed by biNu, more than 4.5 million mobile phone owners, mainly in Africa and Asia, has access to thousands of books, from public domain classics to contemporary fiction.

Earlier, Sony announced the availability of more than one million free public domain books from Google, as well as new releases and New York Times bestseller titles available for USD$ 9.99.

When it comes to ebooks, for example, Google hasn't been able to compete with Amazon (s AMZN) or even Apple (s AAPL); its share of the ebook market is likely in the single digits, and while 5 million ebooks sounds high, a lot of those are free public domain titles.

The example was used to show how irrational some clients can be; even when your returns are in the top 1 % of all investment managers out there, some people can still find something to complain about (as an aside, that is why the truly successful mutual fund managers quickly exit the public domain once they have made «enough», and then they tend to go super private by either managing their own money or investing privately on behalf of some particular clients that they know to be rational — when you're worth tens and tens of millions of dollars, you don't need to deal with people that don't truly believe that good value investing often means underperforming the S&P 500 at least one out of every three years).

There is more data than you can poke a stick at, millions of lines of code in the public domain, and climate scientists tripping over themselves to do outreach at schools, churches, clubs, museums, TV, radio and music hall.

Carl Malamud's nonprofit organization Public.Resource.Org and the legal research company Fastcase today announced an agreement that will allow Public.Resource.Org to publish 1.8 million pages of federal case law in the public domain.